This is actually the first prayer during the day at dawn. Islamic tradition distinguishes two different times for dawn: if the daybreak appears on the horizon, rather vertical (such as the "tail of a wolf" as tradition says), and after that, next daybreak disappears, when the light with the early day spreads horizontally over the horizon.

salat prayerThe very first dawn is known as "Subh Kadhib" or "Fajr-al-Mustateel" along with the second "Subh Sadiq" or "Fajr-al-Mustatir". Fajr is usually to be prayed in the second dawn, Subh Sadiq. However, once we explain below, adjustments need to be generated for higher latitudes the location where the glow for the day never disappears in summer and don't appears during winter.

Zuhr or Duhur:

The midday prayer much like the sun declines after you have reached its highest position on the horizon (zenith). Zuhr is prayed 5 minutes after zenith.

Asr:

The mid-afternoon prayer. Some time with this prayer is determined in line with the entire shadow of the stick planted in the earth. In accordance with the major schools of jurisprudence in Islam: Maliki, Shafi'I, Hanbali, Hanafi and Ja'afriyah (Shia), along the cisco kid with respect to those of the stick is calculated differently (factors varying from one to 2). We give below the specifics of these various options. Each one of these traditions are legitimate and merit respect. We leave selecting the institution towards the user.

Maghrib:

The prayer at sunset. However, physical factors including refraction and also material factors the peak of an building in the city or perhaps the spread on this city bring us to fix enough time with this prayer 3 minutes following the theoretical use of sunset as it appears in newspapers. The Shia tradition sets the Maghrib prayer 17 minutes as soon as the theoretical setting in the sun. In our tables, we've got retained only the first option: 3 minutes after sunset.

Isha:

A night prayer at dusk. In the same way for Fajr, Islamic tradition distinguishes two times of dusk, both called "Shafaq". After sunset, the night sky is first ablaze which has a red colour. This really is "Shafaq al Ahmar". Later, the red colour disappears, leaving room to get a whiteness of the sky. This really is "Shafaq al Abyad". The amount of these phases increases with altitude. The major schools of Islam fix the Isha prayer either with the disappearance of Shafaq al Ahmar or at the disappearance of Shafaq al Abyad. Both traditions are legitimate and, like for Asr, we leave careful analysis an individual. However, as for Fajr, adjustments should be made for Isha at higher latitudes when Shafaq al Abyad hardly ever disappears in summer. In these cases we could either use a blend of Shafaq al Ahmar and Shafaq al Abyad called "Shafaq General" or use other techniques that hold the consensus in the Islamic community. We are going to explain these techniques from the following.

Allow us to note any point: whereas the prayer times for Zuhr, Asr and Maghrib are rather well defined from the Holy Koran along with the Hadiths, and therefore allow a precise mathematical formulation, such isn't the case with Fajr and Isha. The description of in both the Koran and in the Hadiths leaves a margin of interpretation, so because of this for various formulations. For this reason, we take proper care in what follows to clarify the process we have adopted to be able to calculate those two moments of prayer specially.